This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. THE MUSKINGUM VALLEY, FROM MARIETTA TO ZANESVILLE. Although the Muskingum valley is undoubtedly very rich in prehistoric remains, but little work has yet been done to ascertain facts pertaining to the life of those primitive men who once dwelt along its beautiful shores. We can assign no ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. THE MUSKINGUM VALLEY, FROM MARIETTA TO ZANESVILLE. Although the Muskingum valley is undoubtedly very rich in prehistoric remains, but little work has yet been done to ascertain facts pertaining to the life of those primitive men who once dwelt along its beautiful shores. We can assign no reason for our limited knowledge concerning its pre-Columbian inhabitants, unless it be that investigators followed too closely in the footsteps of Squier and Davis. These gentlemen confined their attentions largely to the Scioto and Miami valleys. Mr. Fowke's observations upon Flint Ridge, Mr. Davis' remarks concerning the mounds and village sites lying between Zanesville and Marietta, Dr. Cressou's study of the crania, and Mr. Moorehead's brief sojourn in the valley may give the reader an idea of the domestic life of the long-heads who predominated in eastern Ohio. It is very interesting to note that the short-headed people did not monopolize the Muskingum valley as they did the Scioto and Miami regions. Dr. Cresson believes from his study of the crania of this region that the dolicocephali predominated, and as among other people of this type were not competent to hold their own in intellect and attainments in the art of implementmaking and in the construction of mounds and fortifications; but in the western and southwestern part of the State they were enslaved and conquered by the more numerous short-headed race, and hence lived in the hilly regions of Clermont and Clinton counties and the valley of Brush Creek, as mentioned in Chapters ix. and xvi. Beginning at Marietta, we find the wonderful series of embankments shown in Plate 26, pages 73 to 77 of Squier and Davis' Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valhy. Proceeding up the river we...
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Good. No Jacket. Book. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. Very nice enlarged reprint of the 1892 original. GOOD condition-slightly sprung boards: enlarged facsimile reprint in red leatherette boards.
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Poor. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1892. First edition, 1892. Poor condiiton but complete. Study of paleolithic period artifacts found in Ohio, illustrated with black and white plates. Brown cloth printed in gilt, 246 pages. Covers edgeworn with spine tears, front hinge repaired with old tape, text block separating into sections, pages clean, address label inside front cover, no other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Poor. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
